If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. We like to think we live in the age of science -- that is, that science, our most rigorous attempt at thought, is ...

In Friday’s Financial Times, economist and author Tim Harford offers a much-needed, unusually considered response to big data hype, using the reported failure of Google Flu Trends to predict a recent ...

Quote of the day by John Locke: His philosophy, rooted in empiricism, posits that all knowledge stems from experience. His ...

Is reading PPE at Oxford any sort of qualification to be a good politician? To judge from the markets’ reaction to the UK government’s economic policy, one deduces that they emerge knowing much about ...

I've been reading George Novack’s Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View (1968). It's a flawed book, but it does contain a lot of useful material. Starts out by noting that “empiricism” has a ...

College Composition and Communication publishes research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that supports college teachers in reflecting on and improving their practices in teaching ...

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 34, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE WITH THE SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY (2020), pp. 297-308 (12 pages ...

Many of us who are engaged in the world of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy feel like underdogs. We feel that our theories have been devalued, dismissed by managed care, American medicine, ...

Who shot down the Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine? Given the technology required to strike a commercial airline flying at high altitude, we may know the answer soon enough. But finding out who ...